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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland
Alan and Rory, I do not disagree with most of everything you said. However, throwing another engine spec into the mix and another class formula is certainly not going to deteriorate the state of the class. And Alan, the point is not that the replacement parts are necessaily better, it's that the parts are not "stock" like Rory's production stuff is. If you spec a small block Gen I 350 Chevrolet with flat top pistons, a .450/.460 camshaft, 062 or 182 Vortec heads and allow a 750 Holley with an unmodified aftermarket manifold, then tag a relatively correct power number to it, what is the difference for tech, for classification or for the competition event?
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Dwight, there won't be another class formula, that's the point. If there WERE going to be another class formula, they'd have created it when they allowed the Ford crate motors in new Cobra Jet kit cars that were never sold as a running vehicle at all.
Ford has never shipped a new 428 Windsor in a running car. And yet it isn't in a crate motor class, with its own formula. It's in with real production combinations, regardless of whether or not they've had superseded parts approved, and the production combinations are probably pretty clore to being factored correctly.
The factors won't be correct either, and we all know it. NHRA is evidently unwilling to correctly factor new combinations as submitted, or even get close, so we need to add a bunch of crate motors that they won't factor correctly, and make everything better? Surely you do not believe that will be what happens. And do you REALLY believe that if NHRA were to allow crate motors, we'd see a real increase in the car count?